Every example I find of anyone implementing plugins in android seems to use “aexp.intent.action.” as the prefix for their invented intent string.
Is that string special somehow, or is everyone simply copying the My Life with Android blog entry and doing plugins the same way?
I’m just curious here :-).
Um, OK.
No.
No.
Every example that you looked at apparently is “simply copying the My Life with Android blog entry and doing plugins the same way”. And, the authors of those other examples presumably are not using that action string in production — you want your plugins to use unique action strings, so they can be identified as plugins for your host app (as opposed to somebody else’s app).
Production-grade plugins do not necessarily use anything from that blog post, let alone the action string. Not that there’s anything wrong with that blog post, but it is far from the One and Only Way to Implement Plugins in Android.